About the Project: Tuberculosis (TB) remains a critical health challenge in low- and lower-middle-income countries (LLMICs), where timely and accessible diagnostic tools are lacking. This project addresses that gap by developing indigenously designed, low-cost, portable optical fiber diagnostic platforms for rapid TB detection. Building on our recent successes in Raman spectroscopy and optical fiber cavity ring down spectroscopy (OFCRDS), this interdisciplinary initiative is focused on making TB diagnostics as accessible as glucometers. The work is in collaboration with Gulab Devi Hospital, Lahore, and brings together experts from engineering, chemistry, biology, and medicine in both Pakistan and Norway. Relevant papers:

• Ubaid et al., Lipoarabinomannan-based tuberculosis diagnosis using a fiber cavity ring down biosensor, Biomed. Opt. Express 15(3), ).
• M. Daniyal Ghauri et al., Detection of aflatoxin M1 by fiber cavity attenuated phase shift spectroscopy,...